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Caviling

Definition: Caviling

Caviling

Adjective

1. Quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Caviling

Synonyms: carping (adj), nitpicking (adj), pettifogging (adj), quibbling (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Caviling

English words defined with "caviling": ArgutationCavilingly, CavillousFallax. (references)

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Modern Translations: Caviling

Language Translations for "caviling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

nörgelnd (crabbing, faultfinding, grizzlies, nagging). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avilingcay

   

Thai

  

ที่หาข้อผิà¸"พลาà¸". (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Caviling

Derivations

Words ending with "caviling": outcaviling. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Caviling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capilano, Cavallini, caveing, Cavellini, cavilling, cavling, cavying, Chauvelin, Crailing, scavvying. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Caviling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-n-v"

-1 letter: calving, vailing, vialing, vicinal.

-2 letters: ailing, caving, clivia, lacing, laving, living, nilgai, vicing.

-3 letters: acing, acini, algin, align, anvil, cavil, cilia, civil, clang, clavi, cling, icing, iliac, liang, ligan, linac, linga, nival, vigil, vinal, vinca, vinic.

-4 letters: agin, anil, cain, clag, clan, gain, glia, ilia, inia, laic, lain, lang, ling, nail, vagi, vail, vain.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-n-v"
 

+1 letter: cavilling, vigilance.

 

+2 letters: victualing, vigilances, vocalising, vocalizing.

 

+3 letters: cavaliering, cultivating, outcaviling, vacillating, victualling, vulcanising, vulcanizing.

 

+4 letters: devocalizing, evangelistic, outcavilling, overclaiming, revictualing, vesiculating.

 

+5 letters: cantilevering, civilianizing, cocultivating, recultivating, revictualling, subvocalizing, vacillatingly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Caviling


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 76 69 6C 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    ...-    ..    .-..    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#118 &#105 &#108 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0076 0069 006C 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767887578758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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